i have winXP and redhat 7.2 on my presario 2500 . i installed linux with /boot,/ and swap partitions ,all of them after my primary partition .My primary partition is 6GB so /boot is after that . installed lilo in /boot not i mbr coz i wanted to use XP bootloader . i see the menu all right in XP ie i get the option to load linux or XP coz i edited the ntldr boot.ini but when i select linux my computer just hangs with just the cursor blinking
note i cant find my lilo.conf in my etc directory ,should i place it there using vi

Hi,

I am facing the same problem. If you find a solution do let us know.


Thanks

i ve decided to renstall linux lets c what happens i ll let u know

By default, the windowsXP bootloader (NTLDR) can NOT boot linux.
NTLDR does not know how to do it.

However, the following tutorial can show you how to make NTLDR boot Linux.
http://jaeger.morpheus.net/linux/ntldr.php

i found the problem with my system....was silly of me ...i got redhat linux 7.2 with a book in 2 cds somehow one cd was working and another was not any way i went ahead with the insatalltion with cd1 .......this time i got it ....i used grub as linux loader enabled LBA32 and put it in my /boot partition ......copied the first 512 bytes from /boot to my floppy....u can do this by
dd if =/dev/hda* of=/bootsector.lx bs=512 count=1
*where hda is where /boot is installed
then mount your floppy using
mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
cp bootsector.lx /mnt/floppy
umount /mnt/floppy
boot into windows and put bootsector.lx in your system root ie c drive
then in your boot.ini make the following entry at the end
c:\bootsector.lx="linux"
reboot and all should go well
in winxp boot.ini i entered the following line c:\bootsector.lx="linux